New Theme: Truly Minimal

Happy Theme Thursday! It’s spring in some parts of the world, which for many means tidying and redecorating their homes. Today we have a new free theme to help you do the same for your blog!

Truly Minimal

Truly Minimal, designed by FlareThemes, lives up to its name for its clean typography and elegant simplicity. The theme includes three sidebar placement options, support for multiple post formats, and a responsive design for small screens and mobile devices. It’s an excellent choice for showcasing your writing, promoting your business, or for anyone who wants a crisp, modern look for their site.

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39 Comments

It has almost everything what I would look for, except too much white space wasted on the top right hand corner. The WP version doesn’t resemble the original at the designer’s demo site. If the header image is not preferred than you could have moved the menus next to the blog title or to the right, like the original.

Hi Caroline,
I like Truly Minimal and the features it has and will give it a try on my personal blog. Is it too much to ask that future themes could include the ability to change font color of Site Titles and links without having to purchase a $30.00 annually renewable custom design upgrade? I sure hope so because being able to do this on other free hosted blogs like those at Blogger is common and flatly refuse to pay annually just to change them.

You can change the color of your site title under Appearance -> Header (or in the Customizer), this is the case with most themes. As of right now, there are no plans to include additional custom colors options in future themes, but we appreciate your feedback!

Hi, great theme, I’ve just switched to it on my blog. The only issue is that my front page has now changed from showing excerpts to full posts, is there a way of changing back? I’ve written out custom excerpts for all my posts. Cheers!

I just activated this new theme and I like it except for some reason when I go to change the title to my title and save it in the
customize theme window, it doesn’t change the title from ‘Truly Minimal’ to mine. Am I not doing something right?
Also, I don’t see where I can upload my own Header image. Is this not possible?

Howdy! It sounds like you’re using Truly Minimal on a self-hosted WordPress site, which is different from the WordPress.com version of the theme. You can read more about WordPress.com vs WordPress.org here:http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/